junior
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)juniors
- term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male“look here, junior, it's none of your business”Type of upstart, parvenu
- a third-year undergraduateType of lowerclassman, underclassman
- the younger of two persons“she is two years my junior”Type of actor, doer
- a son who has the same first name as his fatherSynonyms: JrJnrType of son, boy
Adjective (4)
- younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or serviceOpposite seniorSimilar younger, junior-grade, minorRelates to seniority, senior statusSee also young, subordinate
- used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college“the junior class”“a third-year student”Synonyms: third-yearnext-to-lastOpposite endmostSimilar intermediate
- used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father“John Junior”“John Smith, Jr.”Synonyms: youngerjr.Opposite senior
- including or intended for youthful persons“a junior sports league”“junior fashions”Opposite oldSimilar young, immature
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Adjective younger
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See Juvenile.
1. Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.
☞ Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in the same family, and is opposed to senior or elder. Commonly applied to a son who has the same Christian name as his father.
2. Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.
3. Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; the junior baseball league; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, noun, 2.
4. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
Our first studies and junior endeavors.— Sir Thomas Browne
5. of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; — used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high school or college. See junior{2}, noun. Syn. — third-year.
1. A younger person.
His junior she, by thirty years.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
2. Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, WordNet 1.5